Above: Strong sharpie sketch (4×7 inches) by Madeline from a recent in-class Graphic Design One exercise. Each student was asked to answer seven questions using only hand drawn images in the grid below. Having completed that, they had the freedom to explore a combined message as seen above.

Above: Madeline’s sketch grid (4×7 inches). The class had three hours to complete and scan in their final sketches, so the intent was not necessarily to prove draftsmanship skills but to simply reduce information to an idiosyncratic yet legible level, with their classmates as an audience. Madeline clearly demonstrates some mad, mad skills, however. Ressspeck!